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About the 2002 Division III
men's basketball tournament
UW-Oshkosh
71, Ripon 56
OSHKOSH, Wis. —
The cliche is that defense wins championships. While that’s true,
it never hurts to have a couple of hot shooters at your disposal, as well.
Shooting better than 50% from the field for the eighth consecutive game, UW-Oshkosh defeated a persistent Ripon in a NCAA Division III Tournament first round contest at Kolf Sports Center in Oshkosh Thursday night.
UW-Oshkosh (23-5) shot 58% for the game, including 70% in the first half. Although the Titans didn’t make a 3-pointer in the second half, they still finished with a 50% average from 3-point land.
Junior Tim Dworak scored 23 points to lead all players in scoring. The consensus 2002 WIAC Player of the Year also pulled down a game-high nine rebounds.
The star of the game, however, was the often unheralded junior Nate Miller.
Miller poured in 17 points, a point shy of his best career performance, and connected on five of his first six field goal attempts. Four of those were from beyond the arc in the first half, while UW-Oshkosh hit eight-for-11 overall.
The Titans flirted with a 10-point lead throughout the first half, holding as much as a 16-point lead during the final moments, before heading into the locker room ahead 47-33 at the half.
A scoring drought of nearly five and a half minutes gave the Red Hawks a second life, cutting the lead to 60-52 with 9:02 to play. But a pair of layups by Dworak in a one-minute span put the Titans up by 13, 69-56 with 59 seconds to play.
Ripon, the Midwest Conference champion, finished the season at 19-7. Scott Landisch scored 16 points to lead the team, while Steve Kohl and Nick Butrym combined for a 23-point effort.
Next for UW-Oshkosh is a trip to St. Paul to face St. Thomas (23-4) in a second round game Saturday night.
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